The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28

w HEN VIC dlG lOlu lhdl LllC uhl1
wages paid to New York sewing
women is fifty cents for fifteen hours
work we may still believe that compe-
tition is the life of trade, but doubt its
benefit upon the toiling producers who
make the things that 60 into trade. AT
the so-called " bargain counters " in
the great cities people who can well
afford to pay living prices buy the
cheapest of goods, and those who make
them are the people who ought to have
more for their work. Mirror.
THE appeals of mugwump papers
like the Springfield Republican to re-
publican opponents of Mr.. Blaine to
organize to defeat his nomination are
not wholly disinterested. The mug
wump papers are going TO support
Cleveland for second term, and of
course they much prefer that the re-
publicans should nominate weaker
candidate than Mr.. Blaine. Repubi-
cans will prefer to take advice from
reliable republican journals rather than
from the enemies of their party.
THE Boston correspondent of the
Springfield Republican writes:
The independents hereabouts have not
shown such general citation since the tri-
umphant outcome of the campaign of "a as
over the splendid message of President
| Cleveland. In what a ringing voice he
has struck the keynote for next year, they
say "There is the true metal for u.s. There
is no installing the quality of the mani"
| Such are their remarks
This shows the mugwump position on
/ thn tar H ,,nautinn on1 thar
! tended devotion to civil service reform
| is mostly bosh. Tariff reform " is
now their new device to mislead the
| people.
THE president proposes radical re-
duction in the duties on raw materials,
or even their free importation, as a way
of compensating manufacturers for the
sacrifice which they are asked to make.
The free importation of iron, coal and
wool would be a great boom to British
producers. If it were accompanied
with reductions in the tariff upon cot
ton, wooden and other manufactures
the artisans of this country would de-
rive marked benefit from it. If once
the United States finds herself on the
road to free-trade she will hardly know
where to .-Edinburg Scotsman.
MURAT HALsTEAD writes from New
York to his Cincinnati paper: " That
Mr.. Blaine is personally stronger than
the republican party has recently shown
itself, as it has been handled here,
there can be no well-considered ques-
ton. He was beaten by Cleveland in
the state less than One-tenth-about
oneeleventh-of one per cent on the
general vote, and the party has not
since, when re-enforced by the al
legged mugwump vote, approached that
strength. 1t is plain either that the
mugwumps measured by votes are
something less than nothing, or that
Mr.. Blaine has a formidable outside
strength"
THE practical Briton knows where
his business interests lie and halls
President Cleveland as the silent part
ner of every English manufacturer
What is best for him and his country,
he concludes, must be best also for
America and every other nation under
the sun. This is one of the character
istic qualities of English dogmatism.
1t begins with looking out for number
one with great diligence and ends with
convincing itself that every other coun-
try will attain to the highest material
prosperity only as it adapts itself rigidly
to the commercial needs of England
and blindly follows the free-trade doc
trinaries. Tribune.
Hon. DANIEL MANNING, eX-secre-
tary of the treasury, who had been in
failing health for some months. died at
his home in Albany Saturday afternoon
at the age of fifty-siX. He was con.
nected with the Albany press many
years and became an active politician
He was chairman of the state demo
cratic committee in 1882 and warmly
aided Mr.. Cleveland in securing his
nomination and election to the presi-
dency. He had been connected with
, important business enterprises and
was regarded as a shrewd and careful
, tinancier. When President Cleveland
, was inaugurated Mr.. Manning was APP
pointed secretary of the treasury, but
resigned the office last spring on ac
count of i'll health.
THE WATCHMAN has no objection tC
any Ouc CllllClSlllO It's COuISc NHtl IL II
done fairly and truthfully But wher
the st. Johnsbury CdledOnidR calls the
5 article we copied from the Concord
, Monitor last week ga defence of the
{ tobacco habit" it is disingenuOus. The
; article in question bears no such con
= struction. 1t simply discussed the eX
l pediency of retaining the tax on to
= bacco, and showed conclusively tina
tobacco is no more nor less of a luxury
and a necessity than tea and coffee
No one can gainsay this plain logic
Would the ColedOnian have the use o
all articles of luxury prohibited by law
; Probably not; ii knows that this is i'm
e practicable. 1t may be well to dis
0 courage the use of tobacco, tea anC
7 coffee by all rational means and edu
5 cate the "rising generation" to dc
$ without them, but the man who advo
Gates the prohibition of the sale auC
: use of these articles by law is more of
4 crank than anything else. As to Mr.
Blaine, he is not user of tobacco il
e any form. He has simply taken tn,
common-sense view of the question
His opponents may sheer at his opin
. ions on the subject, hut they can no
!, successfully combat his argument.
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